All Posts Tagged With: "Putin"

post thumbnail

No Extremism Found in ‘Putin. Results. 10 Years’

An anti-Putin report has been officially declared to be free of extremism, and opposition leaders distributing the report have been given authorization to get back 100,000 confiscated copies of the document.

Jul 2, 2010 | Continued
post thumbnail

Sberbank CEO Testimony ‘Major Victory’ for Khodorkovsky

Sberbank President and CEO German Gref testified for the defense in the case against Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Monday, asserting that the theft the oligarch is accused of could not have happened without his awareness.

Jun 22, 2010 | Continued
post thumbnail

Anti-Putin Report Will Be Distributed ‘All Over Country’

Opposition leaders succeeded in handing out 2000 samizdat copies of ‘Putin. Results. 10 Years’ in St. Petersburg despite the fact that police had already confiscated 200 thousand copies of the controversial report.

Jun 21, 2010 | Continued
post thumbnail

Medvedev: Russia Must Become a ‘Country of Dreams’

The Russian president spoke at the official opening of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday, pledging to shape fiscal policy in order to turn Russia into a country that people would strive to make “their new or second home.”

Jun 18, 2010 | Continued
post thumbnail

FSB, Police Seize 200 Thousand Copies of Anti-Putin Report

Of the million copies of “Putin. Results. 10 Years” printed by the opposition movement Solidarity, police and Federal Security Service officers have now seized a full one-fifth and subjected the documents to review for extremism.

Jun 17, 2010 | Continued
post thumbnail

Amnesty International: Don’t Forget Russia’s Atrocities

Activists from Amnesty International France were dispersed when they tried to project a video symbolizing human rights abuses in Russia onto the facade of the Russian embassy in Paris.

Jun 15, 2010 | Continued
post thumbnail

Kasparov Speaks at Oslo Freedom Forum

Video is up from Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov’s speech at the 2010 Oslo Freedom Forum.

Jun 5, 2010 | Continued
post thumbnail

Lukin: Constitution Says Rallies Don’t Need Gov’t Sanction

The Russian government is facing growing criticism over the brutal methods used by police to break up a rally in defense of free assembly in Moscow on Monday.

Jun 2, 2010 | Continued
post thumbnail

Police Detain 170 at Freedom of Assembly Rally

Police detained as many as 170 protesters in Moscow during a rally in defense of the constitutional right to the freedom of assembly, many of whom were beaten and at least two of whom were hospitalized.

Jun 1, 2010 | Continued
post thumbnail

Putin Makes Heavily Qualified Defense of Right to Protest

Vladimir Putin has at once called on Russia’s local governments to grant oppositionists their right to protest and assured all parties involved that he has no way of ensuring that this could actually happen.

May 31, 2010 | Continued